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Finishing
thing up, we have
MadOnion's
new PCMark2002 and the never say die, Quake3 time demo.
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PCMark 2002 and Quake 3 |
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More from MadOnion
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PCMark2002
certainly has a synthetic feel to it but there are real
world compute operations driving the tests themselves.
Here's a quick snip on a few of the tests.
CPU Test:
Memory Test
Technical details:
Raw read, write,
and read-modify-write operations are performed starting from
a 3072 kilobytes array decreasing in size to 1536 KB, 384
KB, 48 KB and finally 6 KB. Each size of block is tested two
second and the amount of accessed data is given as result.
In the STL container test a list of 116 byte elements is
constructed and sorted by an integer pseudo-random key. The
list is then iterated through as many times as possible for
2 seconds and the total size of the accessed elements is
given as result. There are 6 runs of this test, with 24576
items in the largest run corresponding to a total data
amount of 1536 KB, decreasing in size to 12288 items (768
KB), 6144 items (384 KB), 1536 items (96 KB), 768 items (48
KB) and 96 items in the smallest run corresponding to 6 KB
of total data.
In both the
memory and CPU tests, the P4R533-N ran side by side versus
the i850 based Asus board. The good news is, with the
i850E based Iwill board, the PC1066 mode of operation with a
533MHz FSB, is tested, validated and technically not an
overclock of the memory at all. With the Asus P4T-E,
we're certainly able to run the same but without "official"
support of the bus speed or memory speed on the i850
chipset.
This was a bit
perplexing but we're going to take it with a grain of salt.
The Iwill P4R533-N bested the Asus board by about 30 points
in the hard drive test. Perhaps there was a small
tweak of the Intel Southbridge that afforded the Iwill board
an edge. More than likely, it is a test score
deviation than any real world performance differential.
Here we've
illustrated what difference Asus' memory "RDRAM Turbo Mode"
makes when it is invoked in the BIOS. The Iwill board
is on pace with the Asus board, when set to standard mode.
When in turbo mode, the Asus board commands a 4 frame per
second lead. This is a small edge that any end user
would be hard pressed to detect during game play.
The Iwill
P4R533-N is a very stable motherboard that offers something
different than all other i850E based boards on the market to
date. Iwill has gone ahead and stuck their collective
necks out and validated PC1066 RDRAM with the i850E chipset
on their board. Now, we need to caution you that this
is of course without Intel's formal blessing for the i850E.
However, that day is coming soon and we applaud Iwill for
taking steps to bring next generation technology to market
sooner for the end user. Iwill stands behind their
board with specific PC1066 rated memory modules from Samsung
and
Kingston. That's all the prospective customer
really needs to concern themselves with at the end of the
day.
What did leave
us a little flat was Iwill's lack of additional pack ins
with this board, as well as it's somewhat bland BIOS.
Integrated 10/100 is certainly a welcomed plus but we sure
would have liked that 4 channel speaker connector plate to
go with the C-Media 6 channel audio chipset.
Additionally, BIOS FSB adjustments could have been a little
more granular with 1MHz increments, like we've seen for so
long from others in the field.
In our final
analysis, the Iwill P4R533-N is a fine example of the i850E
chipset tricked out in a design implementation aimed at
exploiting the full potential of the chipset and the Pentium
4 processor that it supports. The board was rock solid
stable at PC1066 speeds on our 2.4GHz chip. We have no
qualms recommending this product to any of our readers.
We're giving the P4R533-N a HotHardware Heat Meter Rating
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